Fat pigeon

We have a lot of chubby wood pigeons around the garden. That's why we need so much netting on our brassicas. This one was perching on a very exposed branch at the top of the denuded larch, so it was probably fluffing its feathers up too. I was surprised to find the photo as a whole reasonably well focused, though it's no wildlife shot - it was a long zoom on my compact camera, which I then cropped, deciding that the pigeon's colours compensated, on this gloomy and photo-poor day, for the loss in image quality.

A moment later, three large rooks or jackdaws arrived. Two landed on the pigeon's branch. It paused just long enough for its exit to look reasonably dignified. The usurpers did not stay long. Across the garden, two blackbirds were busy on the lower branches of a conifer. The corvids swooped fast and low across the vegetable patch and up into precisely the part of this very large tree which was occupied by the blackbirds. They left immediately. 

The human world, in our little corner, was rather less interesting. There is plenty to be depressed and angry about in the news of course, but I don't think I can face writing about it all.